Eclipse yes they take the same care as any other boa out there, the only thing diifferent is the color. She does seem more sensitive to bright light but most albinos of any species are, she eats great and is a little feisty actually.
Snows are the combination of the albino and anery gene in one animal. When you put a snow next to an albino there is a big difference. Our snow has quite a bit of lavender on her still some snows will turn more yellow as they age, this is dependant on the anerys used to make the Double Het for snows. Some anerys brown or yellow out with age hence snows derived from them will also yellow out. The grandmother of our snow was a wild caught anery Bci which was very black and silver as an adult so we hope our little snow stays nice and white as she ages.
Our aim of breeding her to the DH for Snow male is that number one he is unrelated and #2 he is a heterzygous animal therefore we would be introducing different genes and hopefully producing some strong and healthy snow boas in the future. The DH for snow male and female are unrelated as well they were from two different litters. Double Het for snows are produced by breeding an albino boa to an anery you then produce normal colored animals double heterzygous for both traits. You would then breed the Double Hets together in order to hopefully produce a snow which is a 1 in 16 chance with this breeding.
By breeding the DH for snow male to the snow female we would statistically get the following ratios of color varieties in the litter.
25% would be normal colored 100% het for snow
25% would be albino 100% het for snow
25% would be anery 100% het for snow
25% would be snow
KaHane our albino female was produced by Brian Sharp but is the Kahl or original strain.
For more info on snow boas and their history check out
www.pkreptiles.com under information, there is an article from Reptiles on the snow boa.
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Dan
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